SpringSource, formerly known as Interface21, has announced a strategic partnership with Hyperic. Under the terms of the agreement, SpringSource will use Hyperic’s flagship open source software, Hyperic HQ, as the foundation of its new systems management offering.

The joint offering provides users of the Spring Framework with a single view into the performance and health of their Web-based infrastructure. Building on Hyperic’s management platform – specifically architected to consider all layers of infrastructure including hardware, middleware, virtualization and applications – the joint product enables system administrators to expand beyond classical monitoring activities to increase availability and improve the overall health of their IT infrastructure.

The joint management offering addresses the needs of the next generation data center, where today’s organizations must take into account the evolving demands of today’s IT infrastructure. Additional features include:

• Auto-discovery of Spring-managed applications and components and the platforms and application servers they run on
• Monitoring of Spring applications, components and runtime
• Custom alert configuration and corrective actions
• Performance and service-level report generation
• Automatic calculation and updating of baselines for metrics
• JConsole support